| Identification | 
			
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							| Current: | species Geocoris (Geocoris) aethiops Distant, 1901 |  
							| Historical: | Geocoris aethiops; syntype of species Geocoris (Geocoris) aethiops Distant, 1901; cited by Distant, W.L. 1901. LXI.—Rhynchotal Notes.—XI. Heteroptera: Fam. Lygæidæ. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 7 8:464-486 & 497-510 |  | 
			
				| Specimen | 
			
				|  | Basis of record: preserved specimen Counts: unknown 1
 Depository: NHMUK, London
 Data source: not recorded
 Other: no data
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				| Locality | 
			
				|  | West Tropical Africa, Nigeria: Calabar; Modern (is included in map) | 
			
				| Collecting event | 
			
				|  | [no data recorded] | 
			
				| Images | 
			
				|  |  Geocoris aethiops. Syntype. (BMNH) - (CC BY-NC 4.0) Photo by Stuart Cole, reproduced with permission from the Natural History Museum, London, UK. | 
			
				| Sounds | 
			
				|  | None | 
			
				| Ecological relationships | 
			
				|  | None | 
			
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